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Video: the drastic effects of incivility
incivility – rude or unsociable speech or behaviour. This 15 minute TED talk by Christine Porath explains how incivility can have drastic effects on the teams and culture. She shares some powerful research showing the true cost incivility has but also simple steps on how we can avoid it by…
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Radical Candor – Quotes and Thoughts
Radical Candor by Kim Scott is one of my top recommended reads for leaders. For any leader or those aspiring to be it’s packed with great advice around building relationships and should challenge or direct how we do things. This blog is simply to highlight some of the areas that…
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Recommended Reading – October 2018
Here are a few blogs I recommend reading from this month… On Leadership: Why building trust is the core of every successful team “Trust is the foundation of every great, high-performing team.” Great post on why trust and relationships are so important and how to build them. From the way…
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How I remember things
I find it so easy to forget things. There I am making a cup of tea and remember something I need to do when I get back to my desk, do I remember – no! Within the space of two minutes, other thoughts or distractions have come along and it’s…
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Recommended Reading – September 2018
Here are a few blogs I recommend reading from this month… 6 tips to be a better manager in the most common situations you’ll face Asking for feedback from people has never resulted in too much success for me, a good tip is to “Ask for advice instead of feedback.”…
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“Are you on mute?” – The Tragedy of Meetings
In the echo chambers of time the phrases “Are you on mute?” and “Can you hear me?” will reverberate as an eternal reminder of how much precious time is lost in meetings. Many look back in despair at the time spent in awful meetings, it’s time that is lost forever!…
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Recommended Reading – August 2018
Here are a few blogs I recommend reading from this month… Maslow on Management Challenging blog looking into Maslow’s Hierarchy of Human Motivation. “The famous Golden Rule, to do unto others as you would have them do unto you, is a failure of empathy.” Leaders of a team have the…
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Scala Central meetup talk – Learning Scala as an Engineering Manager
Below is the video of my debut meetup talk given at the Medidata Hammersmith office who hosted the Scala Central meetup on 2nd August. The talk was titled – Learning Scala as an Engineering Manager. The slides are here. Below are links mentioned during the talk: Coursera The Functional Programming…
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Recommended Reading – July 2018
Some blogs I recommend reading from this month… How to Manage an Employee Who’s Having a Personal Crisis Whether we like it or not people in our teams will go through difficult times, this covers good points for supporting those people in the right way. The 4 questions you should…